The Chattering Crow: Happy Birthday, Sally Grace

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Happy Birthday, Sally Grace

This delicious morsel is one today. Just when I think I've met all the people I can possibly love, this happy personality comes along, and I am besotted yet again.

Sally is one;
Ta ra ta tun tun!
Gather 'round for some birthday fun.
Toot a flute--
Dance a jig--
Blow the bugles and strike a drum,
Because Sally is one

Buy her a bear
Without any hair.
Buy her a hairless birthday bear.
Tie it with a bow for the Sally fair;
Make it say "BOO!" for a birthday scare.

Because Sally is one,
We'll strike a drum,
And say it again: ta ra ta tun tun!

4 comments:

Louise PlummerMay 1, 2013 at 10:03 AM
Sorry, I can't get the last stanza to line up. Oh vel.
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sammypMay 1, 2013 at 1:06 PM
Yay for Sally! I love to munch on those rolls
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twebsterarmstrongMay 1, 2013 at 5:25 PM
Gerber Baby.
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Bonnie WhiteMay 2, 2013 at 12:29 AM
Louise she is beautiful. Your birthday poem made me think of a parade. Loved it.
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